Public Knowledge Raises Concerns About House Data Breach Bill
Lawmakers should broaden House data breach legislation definitions for personal information, covered entities and consumer harm “to better protect consumers,” said Public Knowledge Policy Counsel Allie Bohm Friday in a letter to the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee.…
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Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., are working through a draft legislative proposal that would establish broad data security and data breach standards across industries, the Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act (see 1804090044). PK raised concerns about a 5,000-customer threshold that “excludes the vast majority of data breaches” and the bill’s harm standard: “Consumers should be notified any time data are accessed and disclosed without their consent.”